Kategoria BISAC: Computers >> Interactive & Multimedia

This monograph book is focused on the recent advances in smart, multimedia and computer gaming technologies. The Contributions include:

-Smart Gamification and Smart Serious Games.

-Fusion of secure IPsec-based Virtual Private Network, mobile computing and rich multimedia technology.

-Teaching and Promoting Smart Internet of Things Solutions Using the Serious-game Approach.

-Evaluation of Student Knowledge using an e-Learning Framework.

-The iTEC Eduteka.

-3D Virtual Worlds as a Fusion of Immersing, Visualizing, Recording, and Replaying...

This book is aboutFuture Information Technology, Application, and Service (FutureTech 2012volume 2). The topics of FutureTech 2012 cover the current hot topics satisfying the world-wide ever-changing needs.

The FutureTech 2012 is intended to foster the dissemination of state-of-the-art research in all future IT areas, including their models, services, and novel applications associated with their utilization. The FutureTech 2012 will provide an opportunity for academic and industry professionals to discuss the latest issues and progress in this area. In addition, the conference will...

Successful User Experience: Strategy and Roadmaps provides you with a hands-on guide for pulling all of the User Experience (UX) pieces together to create a strategy that includes tactics, tools, and methodologies. Leveraging material honed in user experience courses and over 25 years in the field, the author explains the value of strategic models to refine goals against available data and resources. You will learn how to think about UX from a high level, design the UX while setting goals for a product or project, and how to turn that into concrete actionable steps. After reading...

Media across the Asia-Pacific region are at once social, locative and mobile. Social in that these media facilitate public and interpersonal interaction, locative in that this social communication is geographically placed, and mobile in so much as the media is ever-present. The Asia-Pacific region has been pivotal in the production, shaping and consumption of personal new media technologies and through social and mobile media we can see emerging certain types of personal politics that are inflected by the local.

The six case studies that inform this book-Seoul, Tokyo, Shanghai,...

How can you design technology that becomes a part of a user's life and not a distraction from it? This practical book explores the concept of calm technology, a method for smoothly capturing a user's attention only when necessary, while calmly remaining in the background most of the time. You'll learn how to design products that work well, launch well, are easy to support, easy to use, and remain unobtrusive.

Author Amber Case presents ideas first introduced by researchers at Xerox PARC in 1995, and explains how they apply to our current technology landscape, especially the Internet...